[CH] Groundhawgs is ARROGANT peoples...

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[insert curses, mutters, maniacal laughs]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

The g*wd d*mn groundhawgs are getting to me.  I've only been going up to
the garden every couple of days because we still ain't had enough rain to
wet under the chile plants so they're still stressed and hoping for enough
tomatoes to put up is basically a lost cause. 

But the bamboo stake/mousetrap Rube Goldberg contraption I had rigged up
where I put out over 50 mousetraps and then laid bamboo stakes from
trigger to trigger to defend the tomatoes from squirrels and groundhawgs
had been functioning fairly well and I was only losing one or two eating
tomatoes a day to the creatures.  I mean those mousetraps are on such a
hair-trigger that when I accidently hit a stake there's this domino effect
that sets traps to snapping all over the garden, so I know they were
smashing groundhawg toes and scaring squirrels.  

But the Achilles Heel of all of this is the tomatoes are only surrounded
on three sides by the jury-rigged booby traps.  The side of the tomatoes
that fronted on the chiles doesn't have any bamboo and I just have an
isolated trap or two on that front.  This is mainly because that's a big
stand of chiles and I never noticed any access paths running through the
rown of zinnias that seperates the tomatoes from the peppers.  The broad
leaf peppers are the ones closest to the tomatoes; big lush deep green
leaves on plants maybe four or five feet tall.  Really, it's quite a
barrier.

But on Sunday when I was picking peppers and tomatoes to eat I noticed
several half-eaten green tomatoes on the ground and I wondered who had
eaten them as this was far more loss than normal and seemed to approach
the carnage of last year when the GroundHawg left fewer than ten tomatoes
for us for the whole season.

So tonight I'm looking around and, like, whoa, there's half-eaten
tomatoes everywhere, but none of the mousetraps are set off.  So I wander
up to the chiles and the open side of the patch.  YIKES!  There's a Great
big Datil, down, down on the ground.  And there's a hab horizontal.  And
LOOK, LOOK, THERE'S A MASSIVE EMPTY SPOT WHERE THE SERANNOS USED TO BE.  

Then I notice the ground around the downed serrano bushes is powdery, like
it's just been roto-tilled to near-dust levels.

Whut?  WHUT'S THAT?  

It's a *HOLE*;  A Great Big Hole right where the serranos are laying.
The g*wd d*mn Groundhawg has burrowed right into the garden, right in the
pepper patch, right next to the tomatoes.

This creature is either very lazy, or exter-eemlee arrogant.

So I talked to the neighbors who let me plow up their back yard for
my garden but who frown on my propensity to rely on firearms as a matter
of first resort.  We reached an understanding.  

I won't shoot when they are home.

Groundhawgs is awfully arrogant peoples.




carp

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